Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-27
EAVESDROPPINGS.
If One of the Four Leading Cardi-
dates Is to Be Elected 1t Will Be
Either Reagan or Ireland,
Can Reagan Secure the Remaining
Seventeen Votes Necessary 10 Make
Him Maxey's Successor.
Rumors Afloat that Terrell is to BE Sprung
Again Af,cr Four or Five Ballots on
the Hurrah Plan.
4 NIGHT OF cAUCUssING .
Special to the Gazette

AUSTIN, Tex. Jan. 2G.-Since the dis
solution of the JOINT session at so this
afternoon, caucusses have been as prolific
in Austin as folders are represented to
be in the great firc-box of eternity.
Knots OF legislators and partisan wire
pullers csn be seen in almost any secluded
spot in public resorts mapping o1t pros
elyttng plans to aid their chiefs in the
fight tomorrow. The confess, as seen
from surface indications, sppears to be
not so much who shall be elected as who
shall be defeated. The corporation ar
tillery is
TURNED ON REAGAN,
and if he can be defeated by either Msxev
or Ireland, well and good; if not by
them, then by almost anybody else On
the other hand, the leaders OF the outs
appear tc lie determined to down the ms.
The Maxey forces of course represent the
ms, and everybody else is in some way or
other identified either closely or remotely
with the outs. The drift of opposition
appears to be that Maxey has reached
htgh-water mark for this storm, and that
he will never poll a heavier vote than the
forty recorded for him yesterday in
the separate Houses, and duplicated to.
day on the second ballot. Evidently if
any one Of tae avowed candidates who
opened the ball is to be elected, it will be
either Ireland or Reagan, with the chances
much the more favorable for
THE GREAT AMERICAN BATHER.
Of the combined votes cast against him
| to-day, he mas only to secure seventeen to
win, as one of his most ardent supporters,
Senator Allen of Denton, why has been
az -, Nal
opened, wires that he will be on hand to-
morrow. Can Reagan secure the other
seventeen, is the great Chinese puzzle Of
Austin politics tonight. His enthusiastic
supporters are positive that he can. His
tirmest opponents declare ''never;" but
Ireland to win must get thirty vUtes from
MaXey's forty-fOur, rather uphill and |
rocky road Tor the oX-cart statesman. !
There is suspicion abroad in the politi- |
Cal zephyrs that
A SLICK SCHEME
is being matured by the Terreliites. 1t
may be that the mule of the brilliant
son of Travis has not been permanently |
hobbled out. 1t is understood that he is |
to prance INTO the arena after four o. five |
ballots more, if no choice is reac he'd by |
that time: aud that Alexander Watkins |
Terrell will come flying into the ring once
more with whizz and buzz and 81
avalanche of political spangles and |
blue fire. When he was Withdrawn to-
day his supporters divided up very
methodically and judiciously, that is
in measure to make friendly feelings
with all the other candidates. Ten OF
them went 10 Mr.. Reagan. five to Gov
error Ireland and the balance to Senator
Maxey and scattering. 1t is urged, and
with good reasoning, that he has
AN OLD GUARD
of twenty-five whom he can call
around him at any moment,
and who will stick to him en- first, last
and ail the time term Of service There
are claimed TO BE- ct least twenty t.
twenty-five Others who are for him as
second choice, Wnen their own fayorites
are done up. Then 1t is hoped to g9iD
much good v III from the Reagsnites be-
cause OF similarity Of sentiments Of tha
two men and of the friendly turn per-
formed for Reagan to-day at the time of
II the proper time for Ter
rel to re-enter the contest arrives
THE PNEUMATIC TUBE PRINCIPLE
OF politics is to be employed by his man 5
ayers. He is counted on to come wi {
rush, hurrah, q high-pressure propul- {
sion OF about forty five votes as a starter :
If this number cannot be relied upon he 4
will not come at all. :
Another movement was in4gurated to- :
night in Irelsnd's favor. Oyertures were I
made to secure peace with the Knights OF Il
Labor leaders, and Ireiand's friends :
Ire claiming tonight large accessions q
o-morrow from the Reagan ranks i
lnd good squad of recruits from Max +
,y's camp. The Knights Of Labor story b
5 not alarming the Reeganites. Every I
'ody believes that early in the action Ire n
and will pass Maxey and take second d
lace, but no conservative, disiDterested G
observer of events believes he will over y
axe Reagan. This is the situation to n
light, and all other speculation would be O
waste OF words. "
John Young Gooch is heeling aud
andling phalanx of the Reagan forces.
lie sees hopes of promotion to the seat
is chief now occupies. a
representative Fsubion of Williamson
ounty voting for Seth Shepherd present
d picture of loves labor lost. m
The sixty-siX votes cast against al rail- tr
Dad propositions in the house on the RI
nti-free pass bill, is not cheering pic -
Ire for railway attorney to look at in ~ VI
senatorial contest. ~
Silas Hare, thevenerable Congressman 30
lect from the Fifth district, is here He g.
sys he is after pardon for Pete Var a,
orough, the Grayson county arsorist ~
onvict. 1t is regarded as singular that W W
lie Judge failed 10 discover that Pete de- ~ ~
red pardon till the senatorial furnace %
as at white heat. There is circumstan- -
al evidence that dark horse senatorial ha
ee has taken refuge in his hat lining on
Palestine banquet. CIV
'ecial to the Gazette.